This is an edited replay of #TheWPshow (The WordPress Show) from the 4th of Sept 2020. Feel free to join our community on Facebook where future events are streamed.
In the first #TheWPshow after the summer break, I dip into a short tour of Google Search Console. I cover points such as:
- What is Google Search Console?
- How is it different from Google Analytics?
- The fundamentals of how Google analyses websites (& why)
- Why it is relevant to SEO
- A demo of Google Search Console
- Finding Google Search Console
- Setting up Google search Conole (GSC) with your website
- The ‘Overview‘ page in GSC
- Looking for errors in your GSC report
- Fixing errors and monitoring results
- The ‘Performance‘ report in GSC
- Looking at search query data in GSC
- The URL inspection tool
– how to see if your page is in GSC
– how to request re-indexing - The ‘Coverage‘ report in GSC
- Looking at error codes
- What 5xx errors can tell you about your hosting
- Using UptimeRobot to monitor the uptime for your website
- When & GSC emails you
- Sitemaps in GSC
- What are Sitemaps.xml?
- ‘Removals‘ in GSC – why do that?
- ‘Enhancements‘ report in GSC
- Core Web Vitals – my blog post on the subject
- A video replay of a Core Web Vitals issue
- Apols! I lose the screen share towards the end!
- Google’s Structured Data
- A quick tour of Google’ Structured Data & how this gets referenced in GSC